Back From the Brink (护心) is adapted from the novel Heart Protection written by Jiu Lu Fei Xiang. The story follows our female lead, who was supposed to die long ago but was saved thanks to the “heart protection” scales (I don’t know how to translate that, Lol) and energy pearl from an ancient dragon demon. She’s then luckily accepted as a disciple at Chen Xing Mountain under her shifu – Daoist Priest, Ling Xiao, to cultivate. However, she stirs up some troubles and is then expelled from the sect (the beginning of the novel). Looks like there’s some feelings between disciple and shifu too. Now without a home, our female wanders jianghu and is kidnapped to be someone’s bride. That someone is the ancient dragon demon whose body was dismembered by his previous lover (oucchhh!). He immediately recognizes his important jewels in her body. He pleads for her help and she reluctantly gives in, and together, they travel around to look for his body parts, hoping to make it whole again before the big day comes – a war between the immortals and demons (and a revenge!). What will happen if the return of his whole body means taking away the things keeping her alive?
Angsty!
You can find the translated novel here at Nikki’s Sporadic Spores. Huge thanks for her dedication to completion! <333
Bazaar Photoshoot of the Leads + Booting Ceremony:
3 thoughts on “Hou Ming Hao and Zhou Ye confirmed as leads for Back From the Brink (Heart Protection)”
Happy that JLFX”s novel licensing are coming to fruition and hope she is doing well financially.
As for the drama, I do like the leads and will probably check it out when I have time. My backlog of dramas haven’t shrunk much these past months 😫
3 thoughts on “Hou Ming Hao and Zhou Ye confirmed as leads for Back From the Brink (Heart Protection)”
Shrink Cosmo? What is that word? xD My list has only grown bigger the more gray hair I have! Lol.
3 thoughts on “Hou Ming Hao and Zhou Ye confirmed as leads for Back From the Brink (Heart Protection)”
Well this is… I enjoyed the novel, nothing brilliant but decent entertainment, the leads relationship progression is fun to read. Putting aside the fact that I simply don’t see the characters in this casting, I also don’t find their acting to be good or even at least believable in their last dramas lol. Funny because it’s not like I’m a big fan of the novel or anything but still feeling disappointed with the leads choice. Now I understand how other novels fans feel when the adaptation casting news don’t match their expectation/image of the novel lol.